The Unseen Work: Stewart Brand on Maintenance and Civilization

What does a lone sailor circling the globe have to do with the fall of empires, the Model T, and the rise of AI? Everything–because maintenance, the quiet act of keeping things going, turns out to be the hidden force behind success and failure in nearly every domain of human endeavor. EconTalk’s Russ Roberts speaks with Stewart Brand –creator of the Whole Earth Catalog, founder of the Long Now Foundation, and one of the great connective thinkers of the last half-century–to explore why some people...